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23 of the most beautiful natural pools and springs in the world

June 4, 2019 | News | No Comments

If you’ve ever stumbled through a dirt track lined with shrubbery or driven hours inland in unfamiliar territory, to be greeted by the sight of a lush pool of sparkling green water you’ll truly understand the magical healing properties of water. It’s a well-documented fact that humans simply gravitate towards bodies of water – no matter if that comes in the form of the ocean, a naturally occurring swimming hole or even a series of mineral-rich hot springs – we all know the power of a refreshing dip or soak in a outdoor bath. And who can blame us really, when we rely on H2O so much for survival?

With that in mind, we’ve scoured the globe for a collection of the most scenic, rejuvenating and downright stunning natural pools and springs that are worth visiting. Sure, they may involve some intrepid trekking to get to, but we promise that no matter how remote the location, once there, you’ll be swiftly rewarded for your efforts. From famous swimming spots in Italy to lesser-known gems in Guatemala, take pleasure in knowing that a lot of these places exist purely as mother nature intended – and they’re now here for us to enjoy.

Cascate del Mulino Saturnia, Tuscany, Italy (above)
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Blue Lagoon, Iceland
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Cambugahay Falls, Lazi, Philippines
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Cenote Ik-Kil, Yucatan, Mexico
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Cenote Samula, Mexico
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Figure 8 Pools, Royal National Park, Sydney
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Fuentes Georginas, Zunil, Guatemala
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Giola, Thassos, Greece
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Grotta Della Poesia, Puglia, Italy
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Grutas Tolantongo, San Cristóbal, Mexico
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Gunlom Plunge Pool, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
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Hamilton Pool Preserve, Austin, Texas, USA
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Havasu Falls, Arizona, USA
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Hidden Beach, Marieta Islands, Mexico
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Las Grietas, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador
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Lencois Maranhenses National Park, Barreirinhas, Brazil
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Ma’in Hot Springs, Jordan
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Pamukkale, Turkey
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Queen’s Bath, Kauaʻi, Hawaii
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Semuc Champey, Lanquin, Guatemala
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The Blue Grotto, Capri, Italy
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The Fairy Pools, Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye, Scotland
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To-Sua Ocean Trench, Lalomanu, Samoa
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“Baara”: A Must-See Film of Patriarchal Abuse, at the New York African Film Festival

June 4, 2019 | News | No Comments

The Malian director Souleymane Cissé’s drama “Baara” (“Work”), though from 1978, is far ahead of most political movies made today in its critical view of patriarchal abuses of power. (It screens Monday night, at 6 P.M., as part of the New York African Film Festival, at Film at Lincoln Center, and will be followed by a Q. & A. with the director.) The action is set in Bamako, Mali; in the first scene, a man throws his pregnant wife and their five young children out of their house, leaving her to fend for herself as he prepares to take a new wife. It’s only the first of many such abuses that the movie documents—and which Cissé depicts as inseparable from the economic abuses of crony capitalism.

Balla Diarra, a porter who carts the woman’s belongings for her, also gets hired for a job by Balla Traoré, an educated young factory manager with progressive ideas. Traoré, a former political activist, attempts to improve conditions for his workers and resists layoffs requested by Sissoko, his corrupt and imperious boss. Yet Traoré, who’s married to an educated woman, maintains tight control of her life and refuses to let her work. When Diarra is arrested for a trivial matter, Traoré arranges for his release, and hires him at the factory, where the employees are about to call a meeting and threaten to strike, with Traoré’s support. Meanwhile, Sissoko’s wife—on whose money the factory depends—is having an affair with a younger man, and Sissoko makes a show of force both at home and in the workplace.

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I’ve got a cinematic pet peeve: movies that show characters making purchases or getting paid but that never mention wages or prices. “Baara” is a trenchant corrective. As a freelance porter, Diarra charges forty cents for a delivery. A peddler offers a shirt for seventy cents and a pair of pants for thirty. The fine to get Diarra out of jail is two dollars. A package of roasted meat sells for two-fifty. The workers in Sissoko’s factory get fourteen dollars a month, the factory owes four hundred thousand dollars in taxes, and Sissoko writes a check for a hundred and fifty thousand from his wife’s account, even as he insults her and threatens to beat her. Cissé makes explicit the infrastructure of corruption—the abuse of public funds and the abuse of religion to keep women subjugated and workers terrorized. The movie runs only ninety minutes but captures grand social forces in microcosm, evoking public and private violence, intimate and civic corruption in teeming images that fill frames with richly textured action—and that culminates in a furious act of unified resistance to misogyny and economic exploitation.

Cissé, best known for the drama “Yeelen” (“Brightness”), from 1987, is a crucial modern filmmaker, yet his works are rarely shown; his drama “Min Yè” (“Tell Me Who You Are”), from 2009, which screened at the New York Film Festival, was never subsequently released in the United States. The screening of “Baara” at Lincoln Center is all the more crucial, inasmuch as the film has also never had a U.S. theatrical release and isn’t available on home video.

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Bruce Eric Kaplan’s “Bedtime Stories”

June 4, 2019 | News | No Comments

In the cover for this year’s Fiction Issue, Bruce Eric Kaplan presents a familiar sight: the night-table tower, which always seems to exist on the brink of collapse. Kaplan, who’s been contributing to the magazine for more than fifteen years, recently talked with us about his bedside reading.

What does your own night table look like?

Just like in the picture. So does my wife’s. That’s how I got the idea. (Maybe the piles in the drawing are very slightly exaggerated.)

We live in the age of Marie Kondo. Do you ever prune the pile?

Yes. I am constantly buying books, so I am constantly pruning. I love giving away books after reading them, mostly to friends who I think would like them. Of course, I buy some books that no one else I know might like; those I put on bookshelves. Sadly, three years ago I was overcome by the books I had sitting on shelves and felt I needed to give them to charity. I got rid of hundreds and hundreds of books. At least once a month now, I want to revisit one of those, so I end up taking the book out of the library.

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Are you a fan of reading before bed?

Yes, yes, yes. Isn’t everyone? Oh, I suppose some people watch TV. I find that odd. There was a scene in a TV show I saw a long time ago where the main character is somewhere without books at bedtime, so he picks up a container of toothpaste and reads that. I can’t remember what it was. It feels like it was something Felix Unger would do in “The Odd Couple.”

What do you like to read?

It changes. Right now, I have been enjoying memoirs of all shapes and sizes. For the most part, they take you away from this time, which is so dreadful. But, even before this time, I loved memoirs because, when well done, it’s like the most interesting person in the world is talking to you, telling you the story of their life, and giving you all their thoughts on the most personal matters.

Did any memoirs inspire your own, “I Was a Child”?

Actually, no. That may be an odd answer, but I wanted to write a memoir that was simply about my experience, without creating any narratives as to who I was, or who my parents were. The book is very sensual in that it is about what I saw, what I read—what it was actually like to be me at that age, in that period of time, in that place. I don’t know other memoirs like that. That being said, there are certain memoirs I read over and over again, so obviously they may have had an impact on mine. I love any and all autobiographical essays by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron; “Manhattan, When I Was Young,” by Mary Cantwell; “Underfoot in Show Business,” by Helene Hanff; “Original Story By,” by Arthur Laurents; “Act One,” by Moss Hart. I could go on and on.

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Sunday Reading: Scandals and Schemes on Wall Street

June 3, 2019 | News | No Comments

The world’s financial system can be dizzyingly complex, providing numerous opportunities for white-collar malfeasance—as recent headlines about Deutsche Bank’s byzantine lending practices have demonstrated. This week, we’re bringing you stories about banking scandals and financial schemes. Dexter Filkins investigates a possible connection between Alfa Bank, one of the largest banks in Russia, and the Trump Organization during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Patrick Radden Keefe finds out why corrupt bankers so often avoid jail. In “Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal,” Ed Caesar explores the unravelling of a multi-year scheme to secretly funnel Russian money offshore. In “Angelo’s Ashes,” Connie Bruck writes about the fall of the financial-services company Countrywide and the ensuing subprime-mortgage scandal. Sheelah Kolhatkar chronicles a case at Wells Fargo in which thousands of bank officials created more than two million unauthorized customer accounts. Finally, in “The Death of Kings,” Nick Paumgarten reflects on the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008. We hope that you enjoy following the money as much as we do.

—David Remnick

“Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal”

“Many current and former employees of Deutsche Bank cannot quite comprehend how the equities desk in a minor financial outpost came to taint the entire institution.”

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“Enigma Machines”

“If the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of the largest banks in Russia, were communicating, what might they have been talking about?”

“Limited Liability”

“In the years since the mortgage crisis of 2008, it has become common to observe that certain financial institutions and other large corporations may be ‘too big to jail.’ ”

“Angelo’s Ashes”

“Angelo Mozilo is hardly a scapegoat, but his misdeeds, as real as they are, have overshadowed those of C.E.O.s at other failed institutions, like Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers, all heavy players in high-risk subprime loans.”

“The Death of Kings”

“In a way, the financial crisis is like a plague or a war, except that the pestilence and carnage are metaphorical.”

“Wells Fargo and a New Age of Banking Scandals”

“What went on at Wells Fargo perfectly illustrates the way that the financial sector has, and has not, changed since the financial crisis of 2008 exposed so many of its problems.”

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Liverpool’s Long Journey to Champions League Victory

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Last May, Dan Davies—a forty-eight-year-old writer and editor, and a lifelong Liverpool fan—spent several days and many hundreds of pounds travelling to and from Kiev, Ukraine, to watch Liverpool lose 3–1 in the Champions League final, to Real Madrid. A scarcity of flights and the ruthless profiteering of Kiev’s hoteliers had necessitated some baroque travel arrangements: a flight out via Amsterdam; a journey back via train to Odessa, Ukraine, followed by connecting flights through Central Europe; a makeshift bed on an apartment balcony. It was Davies’s thirty-sixth European away match following Liverpool, and his third European Cup final. It was a long way to go to watch your goalkeeper throw the game away. He told his wife and two young children that the Kiev trip would be his last such adventure.

But then, this season, Liverpool played dazzling, joyful, robust soccer. Its defense, marshalled by arguably the world’s best center-back, Virgil van Dijk, no longer gifted matches to opposing teams with blunders. Its attacking game, driven by the Egyptian striker Mo Salah, was impish and fast. Liverpool might have narrowly lost the Premier League title to Manchester City, but it did so by scoring ninety-seven points, the highest total ever by a second-place team. Moreover, Liverpool appeared to have discovered new levels of fortitude. (Its amiable German manager, Jürgen Klopp, recently called his players “mentality giants,” which would be a good name for a team in a psychotherapists’ softball league.) Liverpool has recovered from situations in which the team was seemingly dead, including one of the most remarkable comebacks in the history of the sport: a 4–0 victory at Anfield, their home ground, against Lionel Messi’s Barcelona, in April, to overturn a 0–3 defeat in the first leg of the two-match series. That win took Liverpool to the Champions League final, which they played on Saturday night, in Madrid, against a resolute and skillful Tottenham Hotspur.

Davies was at Anfield for the Barcelona game. “I genuinely thought I was having a heart attack,” he told me. There was no way he was going to miss the Madrid final. He and six fellow Liverpool fans, who all travelled to Istanbul together in 2005, when Liverpool won the Champions League on penalty kicks after reversing a 3–0 deficit—another “mentality giant” performance, before the term was coined—booked time off from work, made peace with their significant others, and attempted to find a way to get to Spain. Stadium and airline tickets both proved hard to source. On Friday, Davies and the others met at 4 A.M. in London, crossed the English Channel on a ferry from Dover to Calais, and then drove nearly seven hundred miles to Biarritz, in southwestern France. On Saturday morning, they caught a taxi across the border into Spain, then took a five-hour train from San Sebastián to Madrid.

Davies sent me a series of WhatsApp messages from the train. He’d had four hours of sleep in two days. So many Liverpool fans were winding through Western Europe, he said, that it felt like a scene from Exodus. The spiritual theme continued, in a long, unbroken text:

The match began at 9 P.M. local time, with thousands of ticketless fans of both clubs crowding around screens in Madrid’s restaurants. Five members of Davies’s party didn’t have tickets; they watched the game in a flamenco bar. Davies, however, had bought a ticket from a connected friend, and was inside the stadium. He was somewhat dismayed, however, to find himself in the company of many corporate ticket holders rather than partisan Liverpool fans.

If you were not a supporter of either team, the match was a humdrum affair. An early handball by Tottenham resulted in a Liverpool penalty shot, which Mo Salah drove into the back of the net. Long spells of low-quality, error-strewn play ensued. Eventually, in the second half, Tottenham began to press Liverpool’s defense with incisive attacks. But Liverpool was resolute. In the eighty-seventh minute, Divock Origi, one of the heroes of Liverpool’s comeback against Barcelona, scored with a precise and powerful shot into the corner of the Tottenham goal. The match was settled, 2–0. Liverpool had won the most important trophy in European soccer, for the sixth time. For the supporters wearing red, a giant party started that has still—at the time of writing—not subsided. Twenty minutes after the game, Klopp, who was still inside the raucous stadium, told a television interviewer that he was already “half pissed.”

Amid such glee, it seems churlish to focus only on the quality of the game. Supporting a British team is not only, or even predominantly, about enjoying soccer as a spectacle. The history of a football club is not just the history of its previous players; the team’s narrative is bound up with that of its home city in ways that fuse politics, faith, and even race. Fans carry multivolume histories inside them, at every match. (Some of the travelling Tottenham supporters, many of whom hail from areas in North London with large Jewish communities, happily call themselves the Yid Army, even though the sport’s authorities have condemned the use of the term, considering it anti-Semitic.) Although hooliganism, which plagued the sport for decades, has now largely been eradicated in Britain, the identity-driven support of British teams can still sometimes lead to ugly rhetoric, even sectarianism. At its best, however, fans can feel part of something wonderful, complicated, even religiose, something much larger than themselves and generations old.

Liverpool wears its history heavier than most, and for good reason. Thirty years ago, on April 15, 1989, ninety-six Liverpool fans were killed in a crush at Hillsborough Stadium, in Sheffield, in the worst stadium disaster in British sports history. In the aftermath, Liverpool fans were themselves blamed by some newspapers and officials for creating the crowding that led to so many deaths—a narrative that took years, even decades, to overturn. There is not space here to detail the manifold ways that the Hillsborough disaster continues to echo for Liverpool fans. Suffice it to say that the events of thirty years ago are wounds that have not entirely healed. There were criminal prosecutions relating to the tragedy this year.

Davies was at Hillsborough, in 1989. He was eighteen years old; he witnessed people dying. For him, as for many others, his football club is not only a football club. When the final whistle blew last night, and the Liverpool fans sang their sentimental anthem, “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” Davies felt a surge of emotion: joy at the result, but also a desire to reconnect with his friends—who were at that moment going wild in the flamenco bar—and share the moment. The night would be long and sleepless, and the journey home a trial, but Davies had been there to see his team win, and that mattered. Some things are bigger than choice and reason.

An earlier version of this article misstated Liverpool F.C.'s 2019 Premier League total.

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The Hidden Identity in April Dawn Alison’s Self-Portraits

June 3, 2019 | News | No Comments

You know as much about her as I do. Her true and rightful name, or the name she left us with, is April Dawn Alison, and she was the photographic object of her own dreams. In her apartment, in Oakland, April became herself at the close of the day or at the start of it—who can say? The silence surrounding her pictures, or, shall I say, the silence regarding the maker of these photographs (all of which are untitled), is a layer on top of the layering this guy did in order to become himself: April, a gorgeous dream who came into real life in front of the camera. Every model is as good as the self or soul he or she or they are willing to project, and I’d bet money that putting on those shoes and wigs at the start of the day, or the close of it, allowed our guy becoming a woman to expose his soul to himself like nothing else on earth did or could do. April’s clothes are a form of self-love. She stretches her legs so that we can see their shapeliness in that red skirt, but where is she going?

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Among the few facts we have about the man behind April: his name was Alan Schaefer; he was born in 1941, in the Bronx, and made a living as a commercial photographer. His neighbors and family didn’t know about April until after he died, in 2008. They never knew her to go to out in costuming; the party was her body, the dance hall was her apartment, and her dance partner was the camera. Imagine how long or filled with anticipation his days were as a commercial photographer, beautiful to himself as a she—and imagine, too, the moment he got home, closed the door, made a little dinner, and then got to work on being herself. All art is an exception to the rule—meaning, artists aren’t or shouldn’t be part of the status quo, which makes their lives difficult in a way that is different from the difficulties that affect folks who aren’t consumed by, or made different by, the experience of making. April was a maker, and so was the guy who made April; these pictures are a record of a double consciousness, the he who wants to be a she and the she who is a model and photographer both.

Who took the pictures, though? Him or her? I think both people, actually, and, if it’s not too simplistic to think, let alone say, I think he enjoyed looking at her. We see him and her both in the shots recorded on Polaroid, that medium of immediate sadness or gratification. I think April loved Polaroids as much as I do, and maybe for the same reason: we are both fascinated by the immediacy of them, of the image that reveals who you are, just moments after you’ve become it for the camera and in your mind’s eye. Polaroids also give you a chance to get it right—to get your self-image right, in better light or a better dress, without too much technical haggling with the camera. A Polaroid lets you know how your lighting is doing right away, and how to fix it or leave it alone. One gets the sense, looking at April’s beautifully composed photographs, not only that she worked hard to get it all right photographically but that she wanted to tell a story. Her “sexiness” and coyness and all of that seem fairly conventional to me, based perhaps on gentlemen’s magazines. But there were not that many other references for her to go by, and, after all, April was born a man. Did he have certain needs, such as loving a woman like April and cherishing her while having her live forever in an image? Your guess is as good as mine.

This text was drawn from “April Dawn Alison,” edited by Erin O’Toole, which is out in June from MACK.

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Trump Says He Would Be a Much Better Princess Than Meghan Markle

June 3, 2019 | News | No Comments

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – Donald J. Trump raised eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic on Saturday by claiming that he would be a “much better princess” than Meghan Markle.

Calling the Duchess of Sussex “a nasty woman,” Trump said, “If I were a princess, I would not be nasty. People would say, ‘Donald Trump is the nicest princess.’ ”

Trump added that “all a princess has to do is sit on a throne, and I would be very good at that also.”

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“I sit between ten and twelve hours a day, minimum,” he said.

Finally, Trump said that, as Princess, he would do “a way better job at waving at people than Nasty Meghan does.”

“Meghan Markle’s waving is a disgrace,” he said. “I have the best waves.”

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The ultimate eating and sightseeing guide to New York City

June 3, 2019 | News | No Comments

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New York is the ultimate city destination. But how does one tackle this vibrant beast without missing a thing? Some strategic planning will put you on the front foot, and we suggest breaking down the Big Apple by areas, so you can immerse yourself in the personalities of each of the different neighbourhoods. Taxis are super easy to come by and the subway is fast, but walking lets you get lost in all the diverse pockets that make NYC such a dynamic place to visit. Side note: if you’re doing an extended stay of seven or more days, I recommend spending three nights uptown to be near Central Park and four nights downtown to live like a local.

Here is a round-up of my favourite places to dine and the places to explore. Sure it’s long, but you can sleep on the flight home, as you won’t want to miss a thing!

Stumptown Coffee. Image credit: Instagram.com/stumptowncoffee

BUT FIRST, COFFEE

Even within the last few years, NYC’s coffee offering has stepped it up, big time. There are now tons of Aussies showing the locals how to make a solid flat white and cortado… and you will usually find some smashed avocado on the menu, too.

Stumptown
The best coffee, hands down, on the island (and in Brooklyn). Open early every day – I love both the West Village post and the one in the foyer of the Ace Hotel in equal measure.
West Village: West 8th Avenue between 5th and 6th Avenue,West Village. Ace Hotel: West 29th Street between Broadway and 5th Avenue.

Joe Coffee Company
More and more of these are popping up.

Blue Bottle
There are lots of these scattered throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Bluestone Lane
An Aussie team making excellent coffee all over Manhattan, with the newest café opening in Nolita in May this year (pictured, above).

Laughing Man Coffee Company
Aussie actor Hugh Jackman owns this company, which has a focus on supporting fair trade coffee industries around the world and giving back to their local communities.
184 Duane Street, Tribeca; 300 Vesey St, at the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Little Collins
It’s run by Aussies, so you’ll get a Vegemite toast fix, as well as a top-of-the-line flat white.
667 Lexington Avenue, between 55th & 56th.

Sant Ambroeus
These Italian coffee bars are dotted throughout the island; my favourite is the Upper East Side post – for stellar people watching.
1000 Madison Avenue.

Sant Ambroeus, SoHo. Image credit: Instagram.com/tiff_panda

THE EATING HIT LIST

Get to these any way you can for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner or drinks.

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Sant Ambroeus
More than coffee, this place boasts a full Italian menu as well as bar snacks and takeaway options. The focaccine is to die for. There’s a few outposts, but I love the one on Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side, because the people watching is next level.
1000 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side.

Fred’s
A classic mainstay of uptown girls, lunch at Fred’s is a quintessential NYC experience not to be missed – for the people watching, as much as the extensive choice of chopped salads. Bonus: you get to wander through Barney’s before and after.
660 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side.

Café Luxembourg
Owned by the same peeps as Café Cluny, this is traditional French fare served in a bustling dining room. A great find on the Upper West Side, where there aren’t as many good eating options as other areas of Manhattan.
200 West 70th Street, Upper West Side.

Freemans. Image credit: Instagram.com/classicalecs

Parm
I stumbled upon this when I needed a pre-marathon day carb fix – and what a winner it was. Boasting classic Italian favourites and crowd pleasers, the eggplant parmigiana was the best I have ever had.
235 Columbus Avenue, Upper West Side.

Beauty & Essex
A fabulous and cool Lower East Side dining room and bar.
146 Essex Street, Lower East Side.

Freemans
Hidden down a laneway on the Lower East Side, Freemans is a unique experience serving classic American fare.
End of Freemans Alley, off Rivington Street between Chrystie and the Bowery on the Lower East Side.

ABC Cocina. Image credit: Instagram.com/abccocina

The Standard Grill
A classic bistro with great food in a fun room. Located underneath the beginning of the High Line.
848 Washington Street, Meatpacking District.

ABC Cocina (and also ABC Kitchen, ABCV)
A classic NYC hotspot for a reason – each outpost has its own distinct personality. We ate at ABC Cocina and I am still dreaming of the fish tacos.
38 East 19th Street, Flatiron.

Café Cluny
A local gem tucked in the West Village; great for breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner.
284 West 12th Street, West Village.

Waverly Inn. Image credit: Instagram.com/wildwestvillage

Claudette
New York does French-style food so well, and this menu of innovative French dishes in a stunning room in the West Village is a must-do.
24 5th Avenue, West Village.

Buvette
Part restaurant café, part French speakeasy, Buvette is a trés glamorous neighbourhood eatery you wish was at the end of your street. Great any time of the day; from breakfast to last drinks.
42 Grove Street, Greenwich Village.

Waverly Inn
Dark and moody, you won’t know which Hollywood heavy hitter is sitting next to you. Sublime food, wine list and impeccable service. Put it in your top three.
16 Bank Street, Greenwich Village.

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Don Angie
A corner neighbourhood favourite.
103 Greenwich Avenue, West Village.

Jeffrey’s Grocery
You really do wish this was on your corner. Open from first thing until lights out, you can eat every meal here – and who wouldn’t want to?
172 Waverly Place, West Village.

Rosemary’s Pizza
While you’re spoilt for options in the West Village area, here is another one that is yum.
18 Greenwich Avenue, West Village.

Café Clover. Image credit: Instagram.com/clovernewyork

Society Café at the Walker Hotel
Another example of classic American bistro dining done so well.
The Walker Hotel, 52 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village.

Café Clover
With a focus on healthy and clean food, you can feel good as you look good in this Insta-favourite café in the West Village.
10 Downing Street, West Village.

Murray’s Bagels
The best bagels in NYC.
500 Avenue of the Americas, Greenwich Village.

Balthazar. Image credit: Instagram.com/balthazarny

Bar Pitti
A buzzy Italian bolthole loved by locals, it’s also highly likely you’ll enjoy a celebrity sighting over your pasta, too.
268 6th Avenue, West Village.

Balthazar
The original classic French brasserie created by legendary restaurateur Keith McNally in 1997, it’s still one of the buzziest and best dining rooms in NYC, two decades on.
80 Spring Street, SoHo.

La Esquina
In a city with a lot of good tacos, these are hands-down the best. Run, don’t walk.
114 Kenmare Street, SoHo.

La Mercerie. Image credit: Instagram.com/siobhaise

La Mercerie
An interior wonderland, this French café sits at the front of the impressive Roman and Williams Guild store. Every detail, including the cutlery and tableware, is so perfect you will want to take it all home.
53 Howard Street, SoHo.

Café Altro Paradiso
A fresh and inventive Italian-inspired menu in a small and intimate room.
234 Spring Street, SoHo.

Lucky Strike
Yes, another Keith McNally spot. This hearty French fare will tick the pit-stop box while you’re wandering the streets of SoHo.
59 Grand Street, SoHo.

Le Coucou. Image credit: Instagram.com/honestlywtf

Le Coucou
Come here for incredible French cuisine from Parisian chef Daniel Rose, served in an elegant bistro setting. Rose collaborated with restaurateur Stephen Starr for this chic restaurant located at the 11 Howard hotel.
11 Howard, 138 Lafayette Street, Nolita. 

Café Gitane
An old favourite that is a NYC institution, it does the greatest avocado on toast.
242 Mott Street, Nolita (corner of Prince Street).

Charlie Bird
Great room, great people and delicious modern Italian-inspired food. Don’t miss it.
5 King Street, SoHo.

Augustine. Image credit: Instagram.com/mostlyaboutcoffee

Augustine
Another smash hit from Keith McNally, this French brasserie is perfect at any mealtime and is part of The Beekman Hotel. Make sure you find time to have a drink in the fabulous lobby bar at the hotel, too.
5 Beekman Street, Lower Manhattan.

Frenchette
This new French bistro and bar in Tribeca is the latest offering from Keith McNally – and another smash-hit success.
241 West Broadway, Tribeca.

Olive’s. Image credit: Instagram.com/nyc

ON A SWEET NOTE

Even if you don’t usually have a sweet tooth, you will find yourself needing to eat cake as you rack up the kilometres traipsing all over Manhattan. Hot tip: the best chocolate chip cookies and carrot cake can be found at Olive’s in SoHo and Dean & DeLuca SoHo.

Dean & DeLuca. Image credit: Instagram.com/deandeluca_jp

LUNCH ON THE RUN

The original and the best is Dean & DeLuca Prince Street SoHo. They stock anything you feel like and it’s so easy to grab and go.

Wholefoods
Great for buying fruit, snacks and any sort of food on the run. I like the one at Columbus Circle, which is near the bottom of Central Park.

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WHEN YOU’RE NOT EATING (OR SHOPPING)

Some highlights to squeeze into your itinerary…

  • Walk the High Line – it’s the best thing to do first, as you get the best perspective of the city from up high. Recently extended, the re-purposing of the old railway line and establishment of a green public space is the ultimate oasis amongst the chaos of the city.
  • Wander around the Meatpacking District. The Whitney Museum of American Art has relocated there, and there are amazing stores and shops around that area, notably Jeffrey and Intermix. The Meatpacking District still has operational butchers and meat workers located there, and you’ll spot trucks with carcasses hanging out the back among the high-end boutiques and hotels. It’s amazing to see the two sitting side by side.

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  • Brooklyn is a parallel city that you will need days to scour. There’s a lot of fabulous things to discover in the neighbourhoods of Williamsburg, Dumbo (don’t miss the view from the new Soho House Dumbo), Bushwick, Greenpoint and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
  • Chelsea Market offers great food and coffee options, you will walk past this on your way from the Meatpacking down to SoHo.
  • See a basketball game at Madison Square Garden. Buy tickets from stubhub.com, an authorised reseller.

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  • Tribeca is great to just walk and walk.
  • Nolita (North of Little Italy) is also a great walking neighbourhood. It offers great boutiques and Café Gitane is also located here. The 11 Howard hotel is near here too.
  • There are so many great things going on up in Harlem, I would recommend doing a bus tour which covers the area, so you can hear a guide run through the history and points of interest.

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MUSEUM MILE

You could dedicate your entire visit to museums and galleries and you still wouldn’t cover it all off… but make a start with these ones:

  • The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)

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  • The American Museum of Natural History
  • The Whitney Museum of Modern Art
  • The Frick Collection

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Are Bella Hadid and Lottie Moss the internet's favourite new BFFs?

June 3, 2019 | News | No Comments

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3rd Jun 2019

When Bella Hadid and Lottie Moss stepped out for a star-studded evening in London with Dior, the internet deemed Cara Delevingne and Kendall Jenner (endearingly known as CaKe) old news, as fans crowned Hadid and Moss their new favourite best friend duo.  

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The pair, who are both fond of the French fashion house, embraced for a series of photos at the launch party for Dior Men creative director, Kim Jones’s, edition of . American DJ Honey Dijon provided the evening’s entertainment as the likes of Iris Law and Kelly Osbourne joined Hadid and Moss at Two Temple Place.

Dressed in head-to-toe Dior Men, Hadid sported a harness over a mesh sweater and black trousers, while Moss opted for a navy silk bomber jacket paired with black pants, a white top and untied combat boots. 

This isn’t the first time the two stars, who were both cast into the spotlight thanks to their elder sisters’ modelling fame, have been photographed together at an event. The pair were also captured enjoying each other’s company at the Bulgari accessories collection unveiling during Milan Fashion Week in 2017.

In 2015, Hadid and Moss were even photographed together for a feature in the January 2016 issue of US . Joined by Kylie Jenner, the baby-faced trio gushed over their big sisters – Gigi Hadid, Kate Moss, and the Kardashian-Jenners – as they posed in spring-inspired ensembles.

“I just love my sister,” Hadid told the publication, before Moss joked, “My sister’s better than your sister.” They each then went on to describe the first memories they have of their famous siblings. “She’d always dress me up in her clothes,” Moss recalled.

While we can only guess what the pair got up to on the evening, we’d say it’s likely they took to the dance floor in celebration of the 19th issue of , featuring both Bella Hadid and Kate Moss. The magazine has previously seen the likes of Alessandro Michele, Riccardo Tisci and Maison Martin Margiela take a seat in the guest editor’s chair.

“This magazine is the A-Z of all the things I love: my work, my friends, my inspirations, my travels,” said Jones of the issue, per . “It documents my work from graduation to Dior and includes my collections of art and clothing that I’ve collected over the years.”

Here’s hoping the pair continue to bond over their love of fashion in the near future. 

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